Uwatec dive computer & Apple Macintosh

I have both and am keen to get them talking. Does anyone have any experience
of doing this?
Can I use the Uwatec Datatrak under PC emulation or am I going to have to
settle for some Mac software?

Any help gladly appreciated.

Whizz Kid left this mess on Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:00:43 +0100 for The Way to clean
up:
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>
>I have both and am keen to get them talking. Does anyone have any experience
>of doing this?
>Can I use the Uwatec Datatrak under PC emulation or am I going to have to
>settle for some Mac software?
>
>Any help gladly appreciated.

VPC should work fine, unless you're running anything higher than OS X 10.2.4,
where the Classic
environment is no longer loading. That might be the problem. VPC hasn't got the
bugs out of that
emulator yet.

Tao te Carl

"It takes a village to have an idiot." - Carl (c) 2003

Whizz Kid <lazatek@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I have both and am keen to get them talking. Does anyone have any experience
> of doing this?
> Can I use the Uwatec Datatrak under PC emulation or am I going to have to
> settle for some Mac software?

First of all, please don't post in HTML.

Here is a link to what I have found on software for the Mac.

http://www.macintouch.com/scuba.html

Perhaps someone on the UK list would be able to add to these source.

Cheers,

--
Matt
matt@gol.com

devalois@nailedandused.com stopped playing nethack just long enough to say:
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>VPC should work fine, unless you're running anything higher than OS X
>10.2.4, where the Classic environment is no longer loading. That might
>be the problem. VPC hasn't got the bugs out of that emulator yet.

Eh? I'm been running VPC 6.02 on a G4 tower (Dual 450) under OS 10.2.6,
with no problems to report so far. My son also uses it on his laptop
(700 MHz G3 iBook with the same software setup) for some of his
schoolwork, and he hasn't mentioned any problems either.

What "bugs" still need to be worked out?

-JimG

--
Jim Greenlee (jkg@cc.gatech.edu) Let the bridge computer speak
College of Computing LOAD YOUR PROGRAM! I AM YOURSELF!
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332 No computer stands in my way

Jim.Greenlee@cc.gatech.edu left this mess on Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:24:13 +0000
(UTC) for The Way to clean up:
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>devalois@nailedandused.com stopped playing nethack just long enough to say:
>>
>>VPC should work fine, unless you're running anything higher than OS X
>>10.2.4, where the Classic environment is no longer loading. That might
>>be the problem. VPC hasn't got the bugs out of that emulator yet.
>
>Eh? I'm been running VPC 6.02 on a G4 tower (Dual 450) under OS 10.2.6,
>with no problems to report so far. My son also uses it on his laptop
>(700 MHz G3 iBook with the same software setup) for some of his
>schoolwork, and he hasn't mentioned any problems either.
>
>What "bugs" still need to be worked out?

Apparently, there have been some issues about the speed it runs at. Here's a
link to the discussion on Apple.com

http://discussions.info.apple.com/We...LD.2@.5999c360

Tao te Carl

"It takes a village to have an idiot." - Carl (c) 2003

de Valois <devalois@nailedandused.com> wrote:

> VPC should work fine, unless you're running anything higher than OS X
> 10.2.4, where the Classic environment is no longer loading. That might be
> the problem. VPC hasn't got the bugs out of that emulator yet.

I have no problems with OSX10.2.6 what bugs have you found?

--
>replace spamblock with my family name to e-mail me

devalois@nailedandused.com stopped playing nethack just long enough to say:
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>Apparently, there have been some issues about the speed [VPC] runs at.

It's an emulator - of course it's slow. I don't really consider that a
"bug".

It seems to work for most things though (a situation whcih I expect
will change now that Connectix has been bought by Microsoft).

-JimG

--
Jim Greenlee (jkg@cc.gatech.edu) Bad: Play a Windows CD backward, and
College of Computing you get a satanic message. Worse: Play
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332 it forward, and it installs Windows!

de Valois <devalois@nailedandused.com> wrote:

>
> Apparently, there have been some issues about the speed it runs at. Here's a
> link to the discussion on Apple.com

It always has, and always will, run slow if you relate it to current Win
hardware (specialy now that Micro$oft has bought it). That is not a
bug. It is just a fact of life. And if it is fast enough for the program
used, is defined by the user.

My only use for it is to desplay Aladdin and Suunto info transfered from
a PC and for that it is fast enough.
--
>replace spamblock with my family name to e-mail me

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 06:32:07 +0900, Matthew Endo wrote:

> Whizz Kid <lazatek@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have both and am keen to get them talking. Does anyone have any experience
>> of doing this?
>> Can I use the Uwatec Datatrak under PC emulation or am I going to have to
>> settle for some Mac software?
>
> First of all, please don't post in HTML.
>
> Here is a link to what I have found on software for the Mac.
>
> http://www.macintouch.com/scuba.html
>
> Perhaps someone on the UK list would be able to add to these source.

You could also look at http://www.linuxdiving.org. It's targeted at
Linux/Unix, but much Linux software will compile under MacOS X these days,
and there are several links to Mac pages.

HTH,

Mike.

On 21/9/03 6:00 pm, in article BB9397CB.20314%lazatek@hotmail.com, "Whizz
Kid" <lazatek@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I have both and am keen to get them talking. Does anyone have any experience
> of doing this?
> Can I use the Uwatec Datatrak under PC emulation or am I going to have to
> settle for some Mac software?
>
> Any help gladly appreciated.
>
>

Well thanks to you all for the advice.

It's been about a year, and since then the Gods at Uwatec have updated the
DataTrak software to a 32 bit environment. This had passed me by.
Using a Keyspan high speed serial adaptor I had and Virtual PC I
successfully downloaded everything from my Air Z Nitrox.
How happy am I?

VERY

Thanks all.

Happy diving.

JKB